Surrounded by aides and advisers who are determined to keep him in check, the President is a man who still believes he can change the world for the better. Nothing will divert him from his latest cause, to lift the people of Africa out of a life of misery. Or so he thinks. As a personal favour to his daughter, the President gives her boyfriend, Mathieu, a post on his staff, not knowing that he is a young man with a ruthless ambition...